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Dear Parent,

Welcome to The Cradle, Uganda’s first 24-hour childcare & lactation Centre designed for the workplace.

The vision of The Cradle is a Uganda where women are free to maximize and explore their full potential and still be able to enjoy motherhood by creating safe and easily accessible spaces for childcare and lactation. These spaces allow for women to be fully engaged in pursuing their careers, playing an active role in our country’s governance, economic and democratic processes and influencing the direction of our country without having to make the difficult choice to sacrifice one at the expense of the other.

Uganda has one of the youngest fast-growing populations in the World with 63% of her female workforce of childbearing age. With a fertility rate among the highest at 5.8 children per woman. 63% of women give birth by age 20 years; the average working age commencement. It is predicted in the next 5 years the biggest percentage of Uganda’s working force; women will be of childbearing age. Sadly, 13.4% of these women will most likely face workplace gender disparity in their work life caused by absenteeism due to domestic and childcare requirements.

Furthermore, in the last decade, Uganda has experienced a drastic change in the dynamics of living and working in Uganda. There are more dual-income families due to an increased standard of living. Young adults are pursuing further study to accomplish their career goals and work extra hours and days for financial stability. There is also an increased number of single mother households where cases of child neglect by fathers and failure to offer financial support every year.

Unfortunately, mothers are forced to leave their children with inexperienced, uneducated house-helps, relatives or friends, exposing them to child abuse, violation of their rights, child trafficking and sexual harassment; Mothers are finding it increasingly difficult to focus on their jobs and sometimes opt to leave completely.

Currently, 37% and 29% of the public and private sector of employees are women respectively; a low representation explained by demands attributed to reproductive activities. The Gender and Productivity Survey: Analytical Report Uganda, 2014, states that the presence of young children in the household aged between 0 and 5 years reduces employed women’s productivity by 40% and 79% for full time employed women and self-employed women respectively.

Therefore, employers are faced with the challenge of the recruitment of a productive workforce; with the increased number of women in the workforce of childbearing age, their childcare responsibilities have affected their productivity, increasing staff turnover and absenteeism; a cost to the employer. If policymakers, Government and the private sector do not recognize the time constraints faced by women and design social protection programs for child nurturing activities, the participation of women in the workforce will be reduced even further.

In an aim to provide a solution to this problem, The Cradle opened in June 2014 and since then impacted at least 500 middle class working families in Kampala, who work near or within the central business district. The Cradle serves to benefit employers; parents and their children through the provision of spaces located at workplace premises (onsite), near workplaces (near site) and in residential areas (offsite) around the country, and in all the major districts of Uganda. These spaces are provided to employers at a subsidized cost which the employer then gives to the employee at either full, subsidized or no cost at all as an employee benefit.

Our programs are designed to cater to the developmental needs of children subdivided into four age groups; 0-12 months, 13- 24 months, 25- 36 months and 37- 48 months and so we developed Uganda’s first indigenous 4-part infant play curriculum using child brain stimulation techniques to get our children thinking critically, creatively and to solve problems innovatively preparing them for school and for the competitive World they will live in.

We hope that you will challenge your workplace to subscribe to our services so your children can be enrolled either at our offsite centres or onsite at your workplace and allow us to share the responsibility of raising your child with you because your dreams matter and we can promise that “We’re There When You Can’t Be”

The littlest feet make the biggest imprints into our hearts

ChildCare

0-48 Months

We provide 24 hour infant and toddler care, 365 days in a year for children aged 0- 48 months of age. This service is available for companies that do not have the space for an onsite day care facility. We recommend a back- up child care solution that is off the company premises.

Corporate Day Care

0- 48 Months

As professionals and practitioners in the children’s sector, we believe that three months is not sufficient time for a child and mother to bond. The Cradle has created an intervention to set up affordable, accessible Child Care Centers to allow parents especially mothers continue with the recommended breastfeeding.
Parents (mothers and fathers) are able to work assured of the security and safety of their children thus providing a solution to corporate employee and child care problems.

The Cradle provides corporate organisations with three packages;

On Site: For this package, the childcare centre is setup at the company or office premises. This package allows parents more access and proximity to their children while in the care of the Cradle professional caretakers. For this package, the organization is provided with two options;

Company owned - Here the organisation with the technical expertise of The Cradle, sets up and establishes the centre at the office premises; The Cradle manages it on their behalf

Cradle Owned - The Cradle sets up, establishes and runs the centre on behalf of the organisation.

Near Site: For this package, the organisation subscribes to a childcare centre nearest to the organisations premises. The centre is shared with other organisations employee’s children.

Offsite: For this package, the childcare centre is setup in residential areas including Bugolobi, Ntinda/Naguru, Kireka, Makindye, Mengo/Old Kampala, Munyonyo, Muyenga and Kiira. Here the parents have limited access and proximity to their children. The package provides two options;

Resident Cradle Homes - These are the various childcare centres owned and set up by the Cradle. These centres are run 24 hours a day to cater to the different needs of the customers.

Family Cradle Homes - Due to increased cases of child abuse by domestic workers to children, mothers that found it difficult to focus on their jobs and opted to leave their jobs completely to raise their children sometimes fail to join the workforce again, so The Cradle provides these mothers with a business model that allows them to run a home childcare business which organisations staff can subscribe to. The businesses are licensed and trained by The Cradle.

Emergency Care

0- 48 Months

We provide emergency infant and toddler care for unexpected situations such as work and family commitments upcountry, nanny suddenly leaves, a romantic get away with your spouse, a night out with your spouse or anything that necessitates a parent's absence to provide child care.

After-school Care

4- 12 years

Now you have a safe and nurturing environment to have your child dropped off after school as they wait for you from work. Pick your child up after they have had dinner, completed their homework under tutor supervision, showered,dressed and ready for bed.

Play Group Saturday

0-48 Months

The Cradle provides interactive learning and active play areas for children aged between 0- 4 years of age every Saturday from 10:00am to 12:00pm and from 2:00pm- 4:00pm for parents and children to learn together through play. Parents are taught which activities to play with their children through the week in line with their child's developmental needs.

Kids Holiday Program

4-12 years

The Cradle provides a holiday package full of fun activities for children aged 4-12 years. Their schedule allows for great balance between doing their homework and playtime. Activities in the program include; homework supervision, tours and expeditions, educational games, swimming, talent discovery etc. The program provides tutors experienced in both the International and Uganda National curriculum to guide school going children aged 3 years and above as they complete their homework tasks

The Cradle

The Cradle is a twenty four hour (24 hr) childcare service company designed to partner with organisations to support mothers by providing safe and easily accessible spaces for childcare and lactation at the workplace. We offer a nurturing, caring and safe environment for the provision of quality child care for infants and toddlers between zero and forty eight months of age.